Thread: Pangolin Anteater - Scaly Anteater

The Pangolin Anteater or Scaly Anteater is one of South East Asias favourite dishes, in China they bash them over the head with a hammer then slit the throat and boil them up in small pieces, pretty much doubt they have the same medicinial qualities as say a tigers penis but there must be a reason Asians love to eat this endangered species.

In Thailand they are doing pretty good on clamping down on the trade in pangolins and seem to capture a few wildlife trafficking gangs, although with so many Asians willing to pay large sums of money to be able to eat animals into extinction it will probably never be stopped.

10 pangolins saved in Kanchanaburi (Kanchanaburi - Police search finds pangolin shipment)
85 pangolins rescued in Prachuap Khiri Khan (Prachuap Khiri Khan - Police rescue 85 pangolins)
110 pangolins siezed in Songkhla (Thai Customs officials seize 110 pangolins, arrest three)
140 pangolins saved in Hat Yai (Hat Yai - Pangolins saved from dinner table by police)

Suprisingly enough pangolins eat ants, they have up to a 16 inch tongue to scoop the buggers up and claws that could rip your throat out if they were a bit bigger and more aggressive.

Pangolin front foot with claws.





Pangolins can grow up to a meter long, this one is a small 60 cm young female.



The scales are hard and sharp so it rolls into a ball when attacked, obviously that isn't much good for the it if it is a Thai man with the bag who wants the anteaters alive for dinner.